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<< Other Photo Pages >> Mound of Down - Misc. Earthwork in Ireland (Northern) in Co. Down

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Multi-periodSite Name: Mound of Down Alternative Name: Dundalethglas
Country: Ireland (Northern) County: Co. Down Type: Misc. Earthwork
 Nearest Village: Downpatrick
Latitude: 54.328590N  Longitude: 5.7183W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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2 Ambience:
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4 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
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2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Mound of Down submitted by Creative Commons : The Mound of Down. Sunday, 30 November, 2008. © Copyright John Martin and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. (Vote or comment on this photo)
At the NW edge of Downpatrick, approached via the cathedral and Down County Museum, is The Mound of Down, a fine Iron Age defensive earthwork in the middle of which a Norman motte-and-bailey was built.

It has recently been damaged by 'conservation' work. The cathedral stands in the middle of another defensive site or Dún, which gave its name to the citadel before the spurious 'Patrick' was added by a Norman war-lord in the 13th century. Signs similarly motivated proclaim Downpatrick as "Ancient City of Down" when they really mean "Ancient Citadel of Down".

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One of Northern Ireland’s most mysterious ancient monuments is to finally give up its by bat400 on Friday, 01 February 2013
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Excavations have begun at the Mound of Down, a massive earthwork verging the Quoile marshes on the outskirts of Downpatrick.
The distinctive monument is larger than four football pitches, with a massive bank and ditch encircling what was once a drumlin island in the marshes — an area of more than three acres. Within the enclosure lies a second earthwork, a U-shaped mound inside another enclosing ditch, 55 metres in diameter.

The 12.5-metre high inner mound commands spectacular views of the surrounding countryside, across the Quoile marshes to Inch Abbey and as far as Down Cathedral.

The site is also known as Dundalethglas, meaning the English Mount, and Rathkeltair. ‘Dun’, later anglicised as ‘Down’, means fortification and may be the site that gave the county its name.

The Mound has never been excavated by archaeologists but the earthwork is thought to be a pre-Norman fortification, most likely a royal stronghold of the Dál Fiatach, the clan that ruled this part of Co Down in the first millennium AD.

Thanks to Andy B for the link. Source: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk.
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